An activist of the BNP has been slaughtered by some unknown miscreants in Jhenidah sadar upazila.
Police recovered the beheaded body of Abdul Aziz Mandal, 48, at maize field in Sadhuhati village on Monday morning.
Jhenaidah sadar police station Officer-in-Charge Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury said: “On information, police recovered the dead body from a maize field around 7am.”
He said: “Some unknown people called Aziz out of his house on Sunday afternoon but he did not return.”
Later, his beheaded body was recovered on Monday morning.
The OC said: “Abdul Aziz was involved with politics of the outfit Biplabi Communist Party. He left the party a few years back.”
The party associates might have killed him, he added.
Police sent the body to sadar hospital morgue for post mortem examination.
However, police could not trace the reason behind the killing.
BNP District Committee Secretary Abdul Malek claimed Aziz to be a member of the party.